I have not, but now I want to

The moment has come for Cringe Ranch Dressing

100 per cent agree. I think it's telling that the techbros trying to use AI/LLM tools to replace artists and writers fundamenatally don't get what those disciplines do to the creators' brains. You can only make better art by trying to go past what you've already done. Making the art changes you.

Shiv, I appreciate that your Venn diagram of "fun" and "WTAF" clearly overlaps

And that co-creation is not a smooth process, when events outpace our understanding of them.

I sometimes wonder/worry how future generations are going to interpret the stories we are putting out there now; but I think that's a secondary question. What matters is reaching people living here, out there, etc. right now. I agree: we are making sense of the current moment together!

I like that the Norse response was apparently to take the word for bear and make it a proper name, Björn

One hundred per cent this.

My position is that, if we want to get it off this mess we’re all in, we need to imagine the world we want to build. Especially if we don’t want to leave anyone behind.

BTW @soniasulaiman.bsky.social this sounds like it is up your alley

Good luck! Sounds like a book we sorely need these days.

Thank you for flagging & explaining this.

I've been wrestling with this too this week.

I highly recommend We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord. I wouldn't say it's "utopian" but def. about many ways to fight for, and build, a better future

www.simonandschuster.ca/books/We-Wil...

*waves*
ME: Whew, finished this draft of the novel.
ALSO ME: Better reorganize the whole basement now, for fun

I believe in you Hillary.